New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-22
THE ANGLING MARQUIS.
Lori Lorns IN Ths youth', COMPANION

Macs The of the old ,dskns OF the coast
You glide in from the sea where the shore Is marked
by bold headlands and enter country of verdant
meadow with elm and maple and copse adorn the
terndotted glades. Then the Mills close around and
little rapids give earnest oil the swifter tails above
Farms are still seen at intervals but In few more
miles they cease, and you must take your own pro-
visions with you, for, good as salmon and trout are
1t Is tresome to feed on them only.
To be sure there Is always plenty Of wild garlic on
the rocks, but even If the traveller likes such cond
ments. they ma, not like him, and be had best bring
good store of tea and -four with him. One such store
left by a distinguished fisherman once very
welcome TO us. President Arthur was fond OF the
Cascapedia but official cares mad long Obliged him 10
fishing there and lie had left enough provisions
in the shape Of potted eats, hidden away to feed
small army corps.
The Preside Mt son cane, and il voted day.
there large party PRESENT. that the Presidents
stores should be attacked! We were all as hungry as
Polar bears, whose aptitude at finding out buried
provisions Is well-known. But would they be good
after burial OF ten eleven years There Is moth
ing like trying. and, the chief maglstrates son
determined on the attempt We all thought that the
examination, at all events OF these TINS would not
bring immediate war between the United
States and Great Britain. So out came preserved
peas. tomatoes. aud the President only knew what
else aud toasted eatables that bad successfully
resisted the effects OF all the cold Canadian winters
and all the hot Canadian summers.
visited Washington aiJerward, and have reason TO
teeve iron the great kindness OF my reception. that
I was forgiven. But there alto a distinguished
American general OF the party visiting the river that
year. and he ana Mr.. Arthur were ready - dare all
things. They went far up the rivers course until
they had surmounted the last big rapid forty miles
away NJ country and came to quiet stretches OF water
where a latter country made the Cascapedia spread
out in lakes and long calm reaches. and there the
twain xii al many sh, and Toasted. But, 10 the rain
came down. and the river sweed 40 that we, who
were dwelling IN tents further down Its course,
saw the floods rise anc rise and become red, and we
feared much Tor the safety OF our friends one OF
them had TO he back offioial business. and Mr..
Arthur wa, not the man to see his companion In any
danger aud not face IL with him. SO they resolved,
despite tire food, TO descend the great rapid. and TO
Al. bind he
the banks too dense to allow passage within
the time they could spare and the water gave the only
Their men didn't half like IT,; and the two
light shot down TO the beginning OF the spray-
.hrouded descent was told that the dusky Indian
became so pale that they would easily have passed
tor white men. But there L. little time TO think IN
such cases. and the fral vessel entered into the war
with the waters which seetbed and rushed and hissed
and threw clouds OF diamond mist into the air
dash with ae pole here, desperate shove of paddle
there "A total disappearance of the canoes. as the
watcheis shore tried to them pass, shadow of
them rs the spray drii again hall revealed them.
clear view tor a moment, and then another struggle,
and they we're down the foamlng stairway OF water
in less time tnan II takes 10 tell IT.
The trout often take the fly SO freely that they
become pest The finest Jack Scott ty or " Silver
Doctor as two OF the best are called the one win
gsudy golden pheasant plumes aud the jays blue
feathers the other with dark body relieved by bands
OF bright silver, may have been carefully looped ON
to the line You may have had a rise from hsh that
had attcrward sulked tor time but was certain TO
again II only deIterous csst made the w
descend gently above his nose ana inc cast IN maoe
when 10 ! hal-a-dozen trout contend for the prize
and fierce short tug and horrible splutter on the
surface tell that the trout has acted foi the salmon as
the pilot fish does for the shark. and with greater
selsscriice has demonstrated to his big friend that
discretion is the best part OF vslor.
You haul in your victim with language which Is
hardly soft and sweet, and find that your best hy VIII
not long stand the and tear OF the tIouts teeth
But in spite OF all the trout in tue world you may
always catch plenty of hsh In such rivers II the day
be at all favorable Even thunder will not always
scare them, and have known very tyro in me art
of fishing almost as successful as an experienced
angler ;ho.. who h.v. been accustomed to asb only
from the shore OF stream, it Will seem most surprs
log how 80 many fsh, and OF such size can Dc killed.
in 40 short a time but the solution OF tho mystery
lies in strength Of. rod or lne but 10 the practee
OF working from At the end OF almost every
toward thes. YOU allow him to go TO a very speedy
death. In the Swallows he cannot take refuge IN
water too deep Tor the gsh to reach him. land
ing "gaG " is made almost "a strong rs boat-hoos
with long stan. The man In the bow takes TINS III
his hand, while the canoe is directed by bis colleague
in the storm and the craft is run down the shadows
on the top of tn. struggling fish. who is speedily
jigged and, with o beave. deposited In state oil
powerful protesstion in the bottom OF the canoe:
Many sportsmen consider this TO be hardly Iar but
the temptation to make big bag often prevails when
there are three rods competing tor score )
and many fsh Of forty POUNDS weight has neen
killed in five 10 ten minutes IRON the moment he took
tho fatal resolution make that beautiful ourving
leap at the fly, which means business and death to
him. =,
Nobody who knows q Restgouche, Metapeda, or
Case apedia salmon only from ,astng him when he
bo. been frozen for tho New-York msrset has any
idea OF the excellence of fresh fish. The salmon OF
the Pacific Coast do not lose much by being ported
They ere always inferior in taste TO their Atlantic
cousins ana they know il for they will not rise 10 the
Nv and take so little care of their comparatively
worthless bodies that they commit suicide by wliuy
gOins too tar up country to allow themselves TO eet
down TO the sea again. They know they are only ut
for Indians when .resh for poting and act accord
.gly But notbinL Is better than an Atlantic ish
fresh from the sea- and cooked to preserve his
juice.